TY  - JOUR
A1  - Liu, Chun
A1  - Sibly, Richard M.
A1  - Grimm, Volker
A1  - Thorbek, Pernille
T1  - Linking pesticide exposure and spatial dynamics an individual-based model of wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) populations in agricultural landscapes
JF  - Ecological modelling : international journal on ecological modelling and engineering and systems ecolog
N2  - The wood mouse is a common and abundant species in agricultural landscape and is a focal species in pesticide risk assessment. Empirical studies on the ecology of the wood mouse have provided sufficient information for the species to be modelled mechanistically. An individual-based model was constructed to explicitly represent the locations and movement patterns of individual mice. This together with the schedule of pesticide application allows prediction of the risk to the population from pesticide exposure. The model included life-history traits of wood mice as well as typical landscape dynamics in agricultural farmland in the UK. The model obtains a good fit to the available population data and is fit for risk assessment purposes. It can help identify spatio-temporal situations with the largest potential risk of exposure and enables extrapolation from individual-level endpoints to population-level effects. Largest risk of exposure to pesticides was found when good crop growth in the "sink" fields coincided with high "source" population densities in the hedgerows.
KW  - Population dynamics
KW  - Pesticides
KW  - Ecological risk assessment
KW  - Habitat choice
KW  - Agent-based model
KW  - NetLogo
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.09.016
SN  - 0304-3800
VL  - 248
IS  - 2
SP  - 92
EP  - 102
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -